— ie | Donald Trump is widely expected to significantly depart Given the predominance of oil and gas executives from the priorities of the Obama Administration by amongst his kitchen cabinet, it is also widely expected favoring development of additional conventional energy that President-elect Trump will try to halt additional resources and attempting to put the brakes on new environmental regulatory measures proposed by the environmental initiatives. The GOP majorities in the Obama Administration, such as methane emission House and Senate have a similar agenda and Democrats curbs. It should be noted that it is difficult legally to in Congress are expected to mobilize in opposition -- in change or repeal regulations which have been particular by leveraging their power in the Senateto promulgated in final form —such as the CPP —without filibuster legislation —and publicly highlight the potential going through the Administrative Procedures Act impacts of a Trump administration’s policies. process. Environmental lawyers can be expected to Trump has pledged to cancel US participation in the 2015 litigate at every step of the way if Trump attempts fo on : . bypass Congress and eliminate the CPP by Executive Paris Climate agreement, and opposes implementation of -_ ig : Order, and the courts may well serve as a brake on such the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). His ; ; . . . ; . actions. However, environmental advocates who would campaign literatureis heavily salted with proposalsto ; . ; ; ; . ; ; : have likely tried to push a President Clinton to provide regulatory relief to fossil fuel industries and _ . ; . . re administratively expand the scope of the CPP’scarbon slanted in favor of new administrative initiatives to foster a : ; . sg : emission regulations beyond the electric power sector, conventional energy development. Specifically, his ; ; ; ; ; are potentially economy-wide under Section 115 of the Clean website calls for the following energy-relate